The AN celebrates from tomorrow the trial against 'Los Miami', a "very complex" organization with international projection

In total there are 81 defendants, including Ana María Cameno, 'the queen of coca'

MADRID, 5 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The National Court celebrates from this Monday the trial against 81 people related to a greater or lesser level with the criminal organization led by the brothers Álvaro and Artemio López Tardón and known as 'Los Mami'. They are accused of crimes ranging from money laundering to illegal possession of weapons, through drug trafficking, document falsification, against the Public Treasury or currency counterfeiting.

The indictment of the Prosecutor of the National Court, to which Europa Press has had access, indicates that the organization was "extremely complex, powerful, labyrinthine, intertwined, highly diversified and meticulously planned", which was also "permanent and structured". , which had international projection and which was subdivided "into no less than four large sectors or ramifications".

From the investigation, it has been learned that this organization introduced at least 7.5 million tons of cocaine into Spain for distribution throughout Europe and also laundered the tens of millions of euros obtained from the sale. And the prosecutor points out that this "powerful" network "whose criminal activities took place inside and outside the Iberian Peninsula" acted over a "very long period of time" that lasted, at least from the beginning of 2007 until the summer from 2011.

In the indictment issued in 2018 by Ismael Moreno, head of the Central Investigating Court number 2, he stated that Ana María Cameno, known as 'the queen of coca', was also prosecuted for these events. And he pointed out that in the case of Álvaro López Tardón, in prison in the United States where he is serving a 150-year sentence for money laundering, he maintained the national and international search and arrest warrant.

Precisely this, along with his brother Artemio, are the leaders of one of the four branches of the "extremely complex criminal organization" that only in 2010 earned 52 million euros for their illegal activities, according to the magistrate in his car. Both had in Spain, the United States and Colombia an elaborate infrastructure for drug trafficking operations deployed from South America to Europe.

Said infrastructure also allowed them to plan and execute the development of complex and varied laundering operations towards the United States for which they used a diversity of people that allowed them to launder the proceeds from drug trafficking through shell companies. To this end they also used numerous people as front men.

These companies include high-end vehicle sales companies and proof of this is that some of the front men appear as owners of numerous cars such as a Lamborghini Gallardo, a Lamborghini Murciélago, an Audi R8, a Ferrari F 430 and a Ford GT.

Another of the methods used for money laundering is the simulation of the acquisition of a painting titled 'Lunch' by Velázquez, actually being a "crude manipulation", said the judge, for a value of 24 million euros, faking its subsequent sale for 880,000 euros. In the false contract, the then partner of Álvaro López Tardón, Sharon Cohen, appeared as the buyer, representing a Panamanian company with which she had no real ties.

From the search carried out in a villa in Madrid owned by the López Tardón brothers, the Police found the amount of 23,974,853 euros in cash, most of it hidden in zulos practiced in the house, which had extreme security measures formed by a network surveillance cameras of the highest technology. In fact, to find the money, the agents had to dig the floor of some rooms, lifting the plates to find, among others, a 'zulo' in which more than 700 vacuum-sealed plastic packages were hidden.

In the house registry, pages with three items 'A1 - 19,000,000' were also seized. A2 - 10,000,000. A3 - 5,354,000', together with the sum of these three items: 34,354,000. The first and third dealt, according to the judge, with the amounts of money found in the house on Azaleas street, while "the second of those concepts reflects the amount of money that, even today, is hidden in a third zulo owned by the criminal organization in some unknown place and that until now has not been able to be located".

The second branch was led ("supremely responsible" says the prosecutor) by the couple formed between Ana María Cameno (alias 'Pollito' or 'Llorona') and David Vela, who, along with other members, were in charge of receiving the cocaine in Spain and distribute it to numerous subjects, among them the members of the third and fourth branches.

For this they had a "gigantic and enormous" clandestine laboratory in a rustic farm in Villanueva de Perales (Madrid) for the manufacture, manipulation and adulteration of narcotic substances, in which four professors of Biochemistry from the Javeriana University worked "cooking". from bogota, Colombia.

"These four individuals traveled from their native country, Colombia, to Spain to be in charge not only of the actual installation of the gigantic clandestine laboratory owned by the transnational criminal gang in the rustic farm located in Villanueva de Perales, but also to develop, using their knowledge, the complex process of manufacturing, elaboration and adulteration of the narcotic substance, through the use of huge amounts of chemical products", reads the letter.

One of the members of this group uses a municipal police cousin of his to obtain information on the license plates of cars that they suspect may belong to the Police, facts for which another procedure has been followed in a Madrid court against said agent.

The third of the sectors of the macro organization was led by the brothers Raúl and Víctor Juárez Smith, whose main function was the distribution and sale of a large part of the cocaine that arrived in Spain, while the fourth was commanded, always according to the order of processing, by the Spanish-Colombian Laurentino Sánchez Serrano and who, like the previous group, was dedicated to the reception, distribution and, in addition, to the laundering of funds through a fictitious business network.

In his order, the examining magistrate required the defendants to deposit a joint and several bond to ensure the pecuniary responsibilities to which they could be sentenced and which, in the case of the López Tardón, amount to almost 250 million euros for crimes against public health, while in the case of Artemio, in addition, the amount of 104 million euros for money laundering from drug trafficking.